I just found a similar older varient of this guitar at a yardsale for $10 It is the older 29-30 SS Stuart model 7003 it has a decal on the back of the head stock that says B&J certified musical products. Upon looking it up it's worth around $1,500 I am stoked !
maybe it's not that amazing or something, but watching your videos for 2+ years taught me so much i never would have tried before. now i can do fret work after shying away from it for so long and recently made my first telecaster from parts. routed the neck pocket for an amazingly tight fit. not something i really built myself or anything extremely special but it plays really well. you really encouraged me there and i'm excited for my future projects. thank you so much + greetings from switzerland!
Yeah, that intonation is spitting hairs....My favorite saying from my Dad was, "now your picking the flyshit out of the pepper". Great channel. Thanks RRR
I have one, too, and I have no idea what year it is, though I'd estimate somewhere between 1928 and 1950. My personal guess is that it's a 1940's model, but, again, I know literally almost nothing about these guitars.
I watch every segment intensely , sometimes I play it again and again to hear exactly your comments. Then out of nowhere comes the sitar comment and I fall on the floor laughing. There something about you tube videos that some have it and most don’t . I am sure there are great repair people that don’t do you tube. In my opinion , you are top of North America. Thank you for hanging in and showing your fixes ! Alberta Dave 🇨🇦😊🇨🇦😊🇨🇦
Just watched the new B Cumberbunch movie in which his character plays a pretty respectable classical piece on a banjo (banjeaux?). I think David Ward gets credit for it. Set in 1925...
@@ncc74656m They drink Banjolais Primeur. And people do holy mad things to musical words, anyway. A cello is a "sello" and NOT "tsjellow", but nobody nose.
Saving the Harmonies would be charity work. This one was a real basket case. I really appreciate the short history lessons on these lesser known brands, especially the ones I’ve never heard of.
Great intro. Love this channel n like I always like to say on here I have no guitar never had one and have no skills musically but I do have an appreciation for art great skills craftsmanship patience precision and also his sense of humor his voice his style of filming the music he uses his personality.... Ok I love everything about this channel and this guy lol
You are one of the very few channels on RU-vid where I clicked on the ad below the video because I didn’t get an ad at the start of the video just to support you.
what a great line about the nails.... "So,....... don't do that......" And the award for Understatement of the year goes to.... Thank God I wasn't sipping anything, I'd be wiping down the laptop!! As always great work and education for us all :-)
Intresting as allways and wonderfull skills.I have learnt a lot from you, fixing my own guitars due to a lack of luthiers here,and fixing all my jam night friends too..The first thing is, you have to know your overheads to the hour at least. I charge 20 euros to look at a guitar because the owner will want to chat about his beloved,and play you smoke on the water for at least a half hour on delivery and the same at collection. The rest of the 20 gos toward cleaning the instrument before I touch it, soap, white spirit, blowtorch, rubber gloves. Then, if I establish the problem, like a pot that has been twisted past its natural stopping point, twisting the wires into a birds nest and stripping the solder off. I fix it and charge parts and the time it took to the half hour. Most of the time you dont know what you are going to encounter, its difficult to guess up front. An intresting thing about people who own classic cars is, they know its going to cost a fortune to fix. Must go now, got to vacuum a pickup cavity stuffed with rabbit fur.
I watched a lot of your videos a few months ago, recommended by Adam Savage when I was down with COVID, your channel and his got me though some low points in that struggle. Any way I just want to say, Thank you. What you are doing is really helping people in more ways than you can imagine. Keep up the amazing work, people like you keep the music spirit alive.
Even though I'm not playing an instrument, nor I'm into woodworking, I like to watch your videos a lot, somehow watching someone with a lot of experience dealing with issues as they come up is interesting... I like your attention to deatails.
I so appreciate your videos. I tinker in my garage. I was taught guitar repair by one person. I know there’s more to know about this practice. You are generous to share with us what you know. Thank you for your help.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. After a long day of fixing my customer's heating & air it's so relaxing watching a Craftsman like yourself at work. Not only are you an Ace, you're also funny. I really enjoy your commentary
You work and explanations of what you are doing are head and shoulders above anyone else I see on RU-vid. I learn something every time you release a video.
This was a terrific video !!!!! As I have comment several months ago I work with a REAL Luthier like yourself and we do jobs like this every few months. Your videos alway get me thinking and we watch your videos together so he can answer questions on some of your techniques. Again as I mentioned several months ago, I am on my 2nd career. I took early retirement from IBM(I am an engineer) and now work on guitars, banjos, ukuleles. I also do the amplifiers repairs in the shop. But the more I learn about working on guitars the less I seem to know. I like the tools you have developed and tools you have been able to use for your repair that originally not intended for that job. We have taken several of StewMac tools and modified and improved several of them. Being an engineer you are alway thinking how to build a better mouse trap lol lol. FYI - The shop I work in is in Englewood, Florida Thanks again for your videos we watch them all the time and always look forward for your new videos. Ricky from IBM, Ret in Englewood, FL
Great video, I had a old Harmony guitar. The action was really high but it sounded really good but hard to play. I ended up giving it away and the person I gave it to had it fixed and it plays really well now. I guess maybe I should of got it fixed. Oh well. The person I gave it to is enjoying it and I guess that’s all that matters.
I like the headstock design. Sort of Art Deco. I figured that you were going to go with a ninja neck reset. Seeing those nails makes me glad you didn't.
I must commend you for your very diplomatic approach towards any comments that might be construed as critical of previous repair work that is clearly very bad. My compliments.
GREAT job on spotting Paul's not-quite-lefty Martin! As a Beatle-phile I have never heard this noted elsewhere. This is a valuable and fascinating factoid. And hopefully will help prevent people getting so anal about intonation?
Another very interesting restoration and it's a shame that at best you're going to likely only break even, financially. If I was the customer I would feel bad that you didn't make a profit and I would have to address that with you to make it worth your while. I hope that happens for you, at least some of the time.
With just shy of 100k subscriptions, one would hope the difference would be made up with yt revenue. There is also a lot of work put into the video production, which is first class. The flow is amazing.
Most youtubers are saying that the Patreons is the only reason they can keep the channel going, so I never worry about ads. But since you said the ads are useful, I played all the two adds and clicked them to be sure. Hope it helps, cause I can afford even the stickers with the shipping cost and the dollar rate here in Brazil. Hope the channel keep growing fast, your work is way above the average.
Yeah I love seeing the transformation and comparing how it looked before to how it looks after he has worked his magic ! You can barely see where he has been but you can see a world of difference !
Tip- if the top is thin enough, you can place a bright light inside the guitar, cover the soundhole and turn out the lights and the light inside the guitar will show how to mark out for the braces
I get such satisfaction watching you work with your tools. Your analysis of each complication you come across shows seemingly endless patience. The tools you use show that this has taken years and years of experience. But in the end it shows that even a guitar like this with so many problems can be fixed and returned to use. Thankyou so much for sharing. I hate any band that smashes guitars like that's the thing to do at the end of a show. (The Who) Sacrilege!!!
I'd never really thought about the RU-vid ads helping with the economics of a repair. Feels good to be contributing as a viewer to keeping instruments out of land fill. Another triumph of a video.
I love the way you tackle these apparently hopeless cases and restore them. I’ve learned a lot from watching your videos, even though I’d never attempt this kind of work myself. I do feel that I’ve become a more “informed” guitar owner. Thanks 🙏 so much and best wishes.
Thank you again for your Amazing teaching vids. I Always pickup some kind of tip or knowledge from You. In my short time repairing & building guitars I found that using an acoustic set of strings 10-47 on this type of guitar or any ladder braced guitar seems to put a bit less stress on the instrument. I use DR brand strings. Also I just watched the get back documentary You are right Paul used a right handed guitar nothing changed to make it lefty but so did Jimi Hendrix when he played acoustic. 🎸🎹🎼💪👨🏻🦯👨🏻🦯
Have to say this @twoodfdr video is the most legit of any video I've ever watched on RU-vid, and I've watched multiple 100's. There are literally countless jewels of incredible guitar wisdom in this one single video. Gotta say thank you for the excellent professional video production, this is the first I've watched from this "producer". The Paul McCartney observation blew me away. Well done, and Bravo sir!
Beautiful amazing video as usual. I appreciate you sharing and those nails are a first! Question, when you mention that it took a lot to do the sand pulls? What is a lot? 100 pulls at 1 hour? What’s average? Happy building !
I could say that for every episode, really, but seeing you fixing up that heel makes me want to explicitly type out: What an incredible craftsman you are! This is 'Freaking madman!'-levels of work, it's got to be said. Holy shit.
That was a brilliant observation on Paul’s guitar -the why of why it’s hard to get that spot on sound to Blackbird…..you solved my unspoken frustration.
